Tracing Anime and other things in Flash - Page 4

Outlining Minor Areas for Coloring

We next get a thinner pencil (suggested .5 stroke) to define the areas of color change.

You'll notice below the difference between the dark 1-point lines and the thinner half-point lines that define the areas for shading.

You will see in the shadowed areas of the picture that there are gradients used in the original drawing. Here I left those areas as large areas, intending to see how well gradients would play out in the finished project. If you prefer to use solid colors, then you could divide these areas up even more.

The author is a mere amateur at flash, having dipped his hands into it quite recently. He came from a background in photo-manipulation in newspapers, while pursuing film and animation on the side, to getting a gig as a full-bore web designer. Now he is tackling tutorial writing for Flash-kit.

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